Friday, December 9, 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011

ANSWER: Sports

Deion Sanders

Sanders is considered one of the most versatile athletes in sporting history because he played two sports at multiple positions. In the NFL, he played primarily at cornerback, but also occasionally as a running back, wide receiver, kick returner, and punt returner.

During the 1989 season, he hit a major league home run and scored a touchdown in the NFL in the same week, the only player to ever do so. Sanders is also the only man to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.

Matt: CORRECT
Record: 422-365

ANSWER: Photography

1947

In 1947, Edwin Land invented the first of what would be come a historic line of cameras. Called the "Polaroid Land Camera Model 95," this leather-bound beauty produced instant prints inside the camera in about one minute. This would become the technology that would distinguish Polaroid cameras from 1947 to 1983. Early versions required two rolls of film be spooled inside the camera -- positive and negative.

Matt: WRONG
Record: 421-365

QUESTION: Sports

Who is the only person that has played in a World Series and Super Bowl?

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

ANSWER: Christmas Music

Beverly Hills

Irving Berlin's opening bars are often dropped in recordings, but are included on A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records, sung by Darlene Love, on Barbra Streisand's A Christmas Album, and on Libera's Christmas Album.

The sun is shining, the grass is green,
The orange and palm trees sway.

There's never been such a day
in Beverly Hills, L.A.
But it's December the twenty-fourth,—
And I am longing to be up North—
—Verse dropped from original version

Matt: WRONG
Record: 421-364

QUESTION: Photography

What year did Polaroid produce the first commercial instant camera?

Monday, December 5, 2011

QUESTION: Christmas Music

Irving Berlin's original "White Christmas" was set in what city?